"Er sicut aqua extinguet ignem, ita elee-` mosyna extinguit peccatum," says Ralph Coggeshall, speaking of Cœur de Lion's death.-M. DURAND, Col. An. vol. 5, p. 858. "DESINANT Maledicere, malefacta ne noscant sua." "JE sai que les grands out pour maxime de laisser passer et de continuer d'agir; mais je sai aussi qu'il leur arrive en plusieurs rencontres que laisser dire les empêche de faire."-LA BRUYERE, tom. 2, p. 15. "LES fautes des sots sont quelquefois si lourdis et si difficiles à prévoir, qu'elles mettent les en défaut, et ne sont utiles "How canst thou sages say, I am not polluted, p. 84. I have not gone after Baalim ?—JEREMIAH qu'à ceux qui les font.”—Ibid. ii. 23. Where are thy gods that thou hast made thee? let them arise if they can save thee in the time of thy trouble."—Ibid. v. 28. JEWEL replied to Cole who said, "I see ye write much and read little." "How are ye so privy to my reading? Wise men avouch no more than they know. Ye lacked shift when ye were driven to write thus."WORDSWORTH's Ecc. Biog. vol. 4, p. 69. VESTED interests. Ps. xxxvi. 7. "THOU, Lord, shalt save both man and beast." I wonder nothing has been deduced from this text in favour of the immortality of brutes.1 66 "THE doctrine of the Church's Infallibility," says the excellent JACKSON, “undermines the very foundation of the Church's faith,-those of merit and justification, and the propitiation of the mass unroof the edifice and deface the walls, leaving nothing thereof but altar stones for their idolatrous Resource of spinning taken from old sacrifices."-To the Christian Reader. women. Small traders eaten up by the great. Settled shopkeepers injured by interlopers, and by too much competition. Like cattle who are starved by overstocking the pasture. BONNER and Gardiner, or the Guy Foxites. "And yet, Sir, you complain that these men are, as they deserve to be, in the words of the prophet, 'an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach.'" "L'ART de ne rien faire en faisant quelque chose, est de toutes les espèces d'orsiveté la plus dangereuse, parce qu'elle paroit la plus excusable." - Entretien sur les Romans, p. 106. This is said of idle reading. "FREE men by fortune, slaves by free will."-Euphues. blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness. A GOOD passage in Baronius, stating why the wise and good among the heathen became converts, vol. 2, p. 256. It is per "They also that erred in spirit shall come to understanding: and they that mur-fectly applicable to Bucer and Beza and mured shall learn doctrine." "For that which had not been told them shall they see; and that which they had not heard shall they consider."-Ibid. lii. 15. THE Romish system is to be taken from its authorized records, and its established practices. From books which have been examined and re-examined, revised and corrected, and finally approved and licensed by Qualifiers, Inquisitors, Provincials, and Heads of Orders, not from such books as an Englishman sets forth at his own pleasure, and for his own purpose. I take it as it appears in Baronius and Bellarmine, in the Acts of your Saints, in the Annals of your Religious Orders, in your Church Service, not as it is in the British Roman Catholic Church, nor in the Declaration of Kelly, &c. nor in the Evidence of Drs. Doyle, and Co. I take it as it appears and is, at Madrid and Rome, not as it is in Great Ormond Street. those who forsook his own idolatrous church. CRESSY had said in one of his books (the Exomol. I believe) that "no such word as infallibility is to be found in any council. But in his second edition (" et secundæ cogitati ones sunt meliores," says Poole) I find him sick of his former notion. I suppose he hath met with sharp rebukes from his wiser brethren: what penances or censures they have inflicted on him, I know not, but the effect is visible, and the man is brought to a recanting strain. And that he may have some colourable palliation for it, he pretends that he was misunderstood, and never meant to deny infallibility to the Church, save only in the most rigorous sense that the term would import, and therefore he roundly asserts that the Church can neither deceive believers that follow her, nor be deceived herself.-Exomolog. sect. 2, c. 21. POOLE'S Nullity of the Romish Faith, p. 244. "CONCERNING this glorious text of not erring, the case is easy, and the issue short. If the true church, which can never err, be the visible church, then that visible church which often hath erred, and doth still err, cannot be the true church."-JACKSON, vol. 3, p. 841. THE real name of Andreas Eudæmon Johannes Cydonius was Jean L'Heureux. Refutation of P. Coton's Letter, p. 18. See the Anti-Coton, English translation, p. 30-2, for the Kakodæmon's justification of Garnett. Garnett and Oldcome are both by him and by Bellarmine called martyrs, and their names are in the Jesuits' Catalogue of their martyrs printed at Rome. IN BALE'S Epistle to the Reader, before his Pageant of Popes, English translation, A. D. 1574, he says of the Regulars," they gave unto them in most places either the French pockes, or the Spanish disease." Thus distinguishing them. "TRUTH, fully and evidently declared, will justify itself against all gainsayers." — JACKSON, vol. 2, p. 170. I SEE not how any man can justify the making the way to heaven narrower than Jesus Christ hath made it,-it being already so narrow that there are few that find it." “Οπερ εἴμι τοῦτο μένω, καὶ δυσφημώμε- | -J. TAYLOR, Vol. 7, p. 446. νος καὶ θαυμαζόμενος.”—NAZIANZEN. PERMIT me, sir, in my turn, to ask if you have read it, or if your allusion to it is built upon the interpretation given to it by that foul slanderer James Laing, whom I thank Sir Egerton Brydges for introducing me to in one of his erudite volumes, and for designating him as a furious and calumnious bigot. AUSTERITIES.-The man who worshipped cleanliness, and was burnt at Paris. Contrast him with the stinking saints. MR. HUSSENBETH, a Romish priest in Lord Stafford's family, expressing his disapprobation of a book of Prayers recently published in France, “which are nothing but charms or spells beneath the regards of any reasonable person," complains of those who would make "it believed that such ridiculous charms are sanctioned by the Catholic Church. If they were," he adds, " I, as one of her ministers, however unworthy, should be bound to defend them."-Nor- | few minutes' ride, as many at a time as the folk Chronicle, Jan. 14, 1826. “TELL me, gentle reader," says LIGHTFOOT, vol. 4, p. 59," whether doth the Jew Romanize, or the Roman Judaize in his devotions." "Ir is a canonical saying which the Son of Sirach hath to this purpose, 'In every work be of a faithful heart,' (Ecc. xxxii. 23.) Or as Drusius, trust thy soul,-but most directly to the author's meaning, believe with thy soul, for this is the keeping of the commandments."- JACKSON, vol. 1, p. 729. "VIOLENT passions, intensive desires, or strong affections, either strain out, or suck in, only so much of the sense of scriptures as symbolizeth with themselves, for with much the same reason that if one string be stiffly bent and another slack, only one doth sound, though both be touched."-Ibid. p. 1021. DR. SAYERS (Vol. 2, p. 73) argues acutely that 66 a want of miracles would have been accounted by the very persons who object to them, and certainly by others, a want of the material part of the evidence for a divine revelation." HARTLEY was of opinion that it is impossible to prove all Pagan miracles to be false. Sayers, vol. 2, p. 80, differs from him. Pagan miracles, Baronius, vol. 2, p. 102-3. Romish ones, Matthew vii. 22-3. MRS. HUGHES heard Wesley say at a meeting where the singing did not please him, “There are two ways of performing this devotional exercise, singing and screaming. Don't scream." She lived in the street at Bath where he had his quarters, and observed that he used to order his carriage every day some half hour before he wanted it himself, that the children of his flock might be indulged in a coach would hold. THE Armenian Bible Christians, commonly called Briantes, have female as well as male itinerants. The female preachers, described in the Pulpit, No. 6, p. 91, were dressed like Quakers. One of them held forth fluently, distinctly, with ability, and apparent effect upon a not numerous auditory in the fields between the City Road and Islington. She belonged to the London Circuit, and was No. 11 of the place. P. BAGOT, who was confessor to Louis XIII. used to say, "si l'on vous fait entrer à la Cour par la porte, sauvez-vous par les fenêtres."-Vie de Boudon, p. 39. "DECEM præceptorum custos Carolus," written upon Charlemagne's sword. "Ir is a strange thing that, among us, people cannot agree the whole week because they go different ways upon Sundays."FARQUHAR. Poor Farquhar probably did not care which way he went. "AN everlasting reproach upon you, and a perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten."-JEREMIAH Xxiii. 40. "CEUX qui sans nous connoître assez pensent mal de nous, ne nous font pas de tort; ce n'est pas nous qu'ils attaquent, c'est le fantôme de leur imagination.”—La BRUYERE, tom. 2, p. 144. "RIEN ne nous venge mieux des mauvais jugemens que les hommes font de nôtre esprit, de nos mœurs et de nos manières, que l'indignité et le mauvais caractère de ceux qu'ils approuvent."-Ibid. p. 146. "THE civil magistrates' facility to countenance every prating discontent, or forthputting vocalist in preaching what he list.” —Jackson, vol. 1, p. 190. "WEEDS are counted herbs in the beginning of the spring; nettles are put in pottage, and sallats are made of eldernbuds."-FULLER'S Holy State, p. 11 66 "CHRIST," says good old FULLER the Worthy, reproved the Pharisees for disfiguring their faces with a sad countenance. Fools! who to persuade men that angels lodged in their hearts, hung out the devil for a sign in their faces."-Ibid. P 18. “Ανάγκη πότε χρόνῳ ἐκ τῶν ψευδῶς ἀγαθῶν ἀληθὲς ἐκβῆναι κακόν." JACKSON, Vol. 2, p. 318. But whether by the great philosopher, whom he quotes, Aristotle or Plato' be meant, I am not certain, probably the former. "As passengers of good respect would often pass by unregarded of poor cottagers, did not ill-nurtured curs notify their approach by barking; so many divine mysteries would be less observed than they are, did not profane objectors become our remembrancers."-JACKSON, vol. 2, p. 410. THE worst malison that can be pronounced against one of an uncharitable, envious, malicious, spiteful mind, is— "Let him be still himself, and let him live." Ibid. THE brewers have a society for the protection of casks. Ir the argument presses you with a peine fort et dure, you have brought it upon yourself. THE gunpowder heroes,-the pious and persecuted Percy, calumniated Catesby, intrepid Tresham, and glorious Grey; base Bates; the excellent and elevated Sir Everard. Best speaks of his family as illustrated by the name of Sir Everard, and the plot as ministerial. Even if it had been so, Sir Everard was not the less a traitor. 66 "THE presumed absolute infallibility of the visible Romish church for the time being, doth lay a necessity upon their successors of freezing in the dregs of their predeces La Bruyere, (vol. 1, p. 40), says truly, sors' errors."-Dr. J. Jackson, vol. 3, p. that there is a sort of criticism which corrupts both the writer and the readers. JACKSON says, that "to distinguish feigned or counterfeit from true experimental affections, is the most easy and most certain kind of criticism."—(Vol. 1, p. 22.) True; for men who have the faculty of discernment. But there is nothing in which common readers and common critics are more frequently deceived. 187. "As a fountain casteth out her waters; so she casteth out her wickedness."—Ibid. vi. 7. REFORMATION. "Thus saith the Lord, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls."—Ibid. vi. 16. |